Posted on 04/05/2008 9:46:25 AM PDT by sionnsar
Journal written by symbolset (646467) and posted by ScuttleMonkey
on Saturday April 05, @07:21AM
from the also-duke-nukem-forever dept.
Windows 7 won’t be worth having till 2 years after it’s release when service pack 2 is released.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
How is this different from Xp and Vista?? I run Xp, does this mean I have to load something else or does it replace those two?
/r/jane
What makes you think they will do that?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
So basically Vista turned out to be Windows ME Part Deux.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I will try to hang on to Xp as long as I can. BTW - my grandmom runs Windows 3.1 - she just writes letters and prints newsletters and labels. No Internet, doesn’t care for it - works fine for her .....
Windows 7 will be the last 32 bit Windows. Vista is so big, it really needs at least 2 GB of RAM, and a 32 bit processor can only address 4 GB directly.
They can do it if it's actually XP Service Pack 3 with a new splash screen. ;)
Unlike Windows ME Vista actually works.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I had Windows ME running in a VMware virtual machine just fine.
Vista: Worst. OS. Ever (well, since Windows ME!)
You lose Microsoft. Please try again...
It also won't be out next year, either. Bet. This is a strategic statement meant to get those refusing to upgrade from XP to hold out in hope of a better Windows in the near future rather than investigating other options. It'll work.
THey have been working on the basis of the next windows for awhile now, the biggest change will probably be the file system and resource allocation and utilization. THe hardest though has been building a new OS from the ground up that is still backwards compatible with past windows applications and hardware, which is one of the reasons why you have seen Windows continue to bloat as its different versions came out.
LOL, you have obviously never used it. LOL.
The Vista rollout.. is it in a wheelchair already?..
The Vista rollout.. is it in a wheelchair already?..
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Hence XP was extended last week for 2 years.
I can see clearly now.
Enjoy this infomercial all about Vista. ;-)
We may be screwed.
Obviously MS Knows Vista is a bust.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Exactly my thoughts.
The difference is ME was easy to skip.
Only for OEM installs on ultra-portables. ie. The Asus Eee PC.
Get this...
We have Vista Running.
Start VMWare so we can run XP so we can run Nortel VPN.
Like Using a Semi Truck to haul a single 2x4.
Maybe the OS is better but it is going to cause far more damage to their reputation and customers.
In an Iron Lung
Rumor has it that apple is working on their next OS, I guess this means that OS X is a bust as well.....
I never had a problem with Windows ME. The problem at the time wasn’t ME but the hardware that a lot of system builders were using. This is when the cheaper systems were using Cyrix and the early AMD CPUs, and there were lots of cheaply made motherboards and ram on the market that would fail when stressed and compared to the Windows version before them ME was more demanding on the hardware, so these components would fail. I ran ME for the longest on an Intel P3 Slot 1 running on a Gigabyte 440BX chip-set based motherboard, it ran fine fast and very stable.
I actually liked ME. It did the Windoze stuff fairly well (as long as you had the right drivers), but it still provided a true DOS type interface.
Security sucked, though.
MS is still fighting the same problem they’ve had for years. The original PC designs assumed a single user per machine. The kinds of interfaces and file structures and security you need for a multiple user per machine environment is drastically different.
Its my understanding that this will be the version that is binary incompatible with previous versions. A lot of people have said its MS' failure to jettison the old code compatibility that keeps Windows mired in muck. Of course we heard noises like that about Vista too...
More Vista bashing. I’ve been using it on three machines for six months with no problems. How can this be?
For pity sakes. One can buy a fully equipped desktop with 2gb of memory and a dual core processor for $400 off the Dell outlet site ready to go with Vista Home Premium. I sold my old Dells with XP Pro and it didn’t cost me anything to move up. What is this obsession with staying in the past? Vista works just fine.
While we are at it, why don’t we just go back to Dos 1.0 and dual floppy disks and get rid of all of this new fangled equipment while we are at it?
Apparently the Oracle’s of design were on Crack when they decided what should be included.
I still have a single sided 5 /14 in floppy at home.
IBM DOS v 1.2
Boots fast!
(Yes!!! I still have a machine with 5 1/4 in drive on it!!)
Trading driver compatibility for no real value was the issue.
I’d go to a friends house to help them with a problem, then see Windows ME and just say replace it or you are on your own.
LOL
ME was really Windows 98 Third Edition.
I’m just saying I likes the DOS based interface way better than the NT type. I could actually find stuff back then.
The problem is that beyond the bashers, there are a lot of people in the tech and tech-opinion industries that have expressed publicly that moving from XP to Vista is not a smart move right now. ie. My own favorite mag, MaximumPC advises users to stick with XP. It may not be Windows 3.0, but it does seem to have some legitimately concerning problems.
Are you saying your experience is identical to everyone else's?
Hopefully not - love my Xp - very stable now. Question though: What if I buy a laptop that has VISTA - can I delete it and load my Xp?
Hmmm that math doesn’t work. If you run the count from Win3.1 then 95 should be 4, 98 is 5, ME was 6, XP 7, Vista 8 and the next one 9. So apparently two of those never happened, obviously ME would be one, is Vista the other?
Sure, it boots fast. Then all it does is say, “bad command or file name” :^)
I’m at an F500 site right now that manages somewhere between 1500-2000 PC’s and laptops.
They adamantly refuse to go to Vista.
Vista doesn’t work just fine. Vista is a pig, sucks massive resources just for the display, and has major problems. The list of software that doesn’t work on Vista is huge, it’s just plain a bad OS. They screwed the pooch, they gilded the lily, they dropped the ball. Sure it works fine for some people, my co-worker loved ME, but for most folks it just plain is no good. The system you just outlined isn’t actually up to snuff to run Vista, it needs 4GB minimum. It’s not a matter of staying in the past, it’s a matter of realizing that sometimes companies blow it and the present is best avoided, ME was one of those times, Vista is playing out to be another.
now I love the windows operating system but ME still gives me nightmares. A format every there months, constant crashing urgh. One of the reasons I plan on keeping XP for a good long while.
Maybe, but maybe not, especially with a laptop. Several laptop makers have released Vista laptops with proprietary hardware (as is typical on laptops) for which there is no XP compatible driver. And obviously they have no interest in putting resources into a driver so that a laptop they sold with Vista can run with XP.
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